The 2025–26 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represented Indiana University in the 2025–26 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. They were led by first-year head coach Darian DeVries. The team played its home games at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana, as a member of the Big Ten Conference. Instead of the traditional Hoosier Hysteria, the season began with a new event called Hoosier Hoops on Kirkwood. The block party took place on October 2, 2025, on Kirkwood Avenue in downtown Bloomington.
The Hoosiers found themselves in a promising position to make the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2023 by starting 17–8; however, IU had lost five of their last six regular season games. Finishing 10th in the conference, IU earned the No. 10 seed and faced off against No. 15 seed Northwestern, but fell 61–74. The Hoosiers' season concluded with an overall record of 18–14, and 9–11 in Big Ten play. IU missed the NCAA tournament for the third straight year, ending up in the First Four out. On March 15, 2026, IU announced that they would not participate in any postseason tournaments, bringing the first year under Devries to a close.
Previous season By missing out on the 2025 NCAA Tournament, the Woodson era came to a close. Turning down other post-season tournament invites, the Hoosiers finished with an overall record of 19–13, and 10–10 in Big Ten Conference play.
Offseason Coaching changes On March 18, 2025, Indiana University announced Darian DeVries as its 31st head coach of the men's basketball program. Devries is originally from Aplington, Iowa. He played collegiately at Northern Iowa before becoming an assistant coach for 17 years at Creighton; he then became the head coach at Drake and most recently West Virginia. As a head coach, his incoming record was 169–68 (.713).
The first addition to Devries' staff came on March 31, 2025. It was announced that Assistant Coach Drew Adams, a former assistant coach/recruiting coordinator for the Cincinnati Bearcats (a job he held for two years) would be coming back to Indiana. He is a native of Bloomington, Indiana, and graduated from Bloomington South in 2004. He was then recruited to Iowa to play under Steve Alford, a former Hoosier legend. Adams spent two years on Tom Crean's staff at Indiana, first as Coordinator of Basketball Systems in 2009–10 before being promoted to Director of Operations for the 2010–11 season. He has also coached on the AAU level for the Indiana Elite program.
The second addition to the coaching staff was officially announced on April 3, 2025. Assistant Coach Nick Norton followed Coach Devries from West Virginia, where he served as an assistant coach and director of player development. Per Coach Devries, "We are excited to have Nick join our staff. He brings tremendous knowledge and feel for what we want our program to be about. He is terrific with the players on the floor and brings incredible energy every day to the practice floor." Norton began his collegiate career at UAB, but finished at Drake playing for DeVries. In 2019, he signed with the South Bay Lakers of the NBA G League, but had a very short season/career due to injuries. Norton returned to Drake during the 2021–22 season, but this time as an assistant director of operations. He then was promoted to director of operations prior to the 2022–23 season. He was promoted again to assistant coach/director of player development for the 2023–24 campaign.
On April 11, 2025, two more coaches' names were revealed: former IU assistant coach Kenny Johnson and Mike Bargen. Johnson was an assistant under Coach Tom Crean for two seasons 2012–13 and 2013–14. Since then, Johnson has been an assistant coach at multiple stops including Louisville, La Salle, Rhode Island, and most recently Georgetown. Per Alex Bozich from Inside the Hall, "Johnson has coached numerous NBA players including but not limited to Terry Rozier, Montrezl Harrell, Damion Lee, Jordan Nwora, Donovan Mitchell, Victor Oladipo, Cody Zeller, Noah Vonleh, Josh Hart and Jerami Grant. Johnson is known as a top recruiter on a national level and an elite talent developer. After surveying more than 60 collegiate coaches, ESPN Insider named Johnson as the nation's 10th-best recruiting assistant coach in a 2016 listing."
Bargen comes to IU by way of Bradley University, where he had been the associate head coach/assistant coach for the past ten years, seven of which he worked alongside IU's assistant coach, Drew Adams. At this time, Bargen's official title had yet to be determined; however, he will not be an assistant coach.
A fourth assistant coach was officially announced on April 30, 2025: Rod Clark. Clark spent the last four seasons on the bench next to Rick Barnes as an assistant for the Tennessee Volunteers. Three of those years, he helped lead Tennessee to two Sweet Sixteen appearances and an Elite Eight. Also, every year at Tennessee Clark has been instrumental in getting at least one Volunteer drafted in the NBA. As a collegiate player, Clark started out at a junior college Neosho County Community College, next Redlands Community College, and then finished at Lindsey Wilson College, an NAIA school.
Departures
Indiana departuresNameNumberPos.HeightWeightYearHometownReason for departure Jakai Newton 0 G 6'3" 210 RS FR Covington, GA Transferred to Georgia State Myles Rice 0 G 6'3" 210 RS SO Columbia, SC Transferred to Maryland Gabe Cupps 2 G 6'2" 180 RS SO Dayton, OH Transferred to Ohio State Anthony Leal 3 G 6'5" 200 SR Bloomington, IN Graduated Malik Reneau 5 F 6'9" 232 JR Miami, FL Transferred to Miami Bryson Tucker 8 F 6'7" 207 FR Arlington, VA Transferred to Washington Kanaan Carlyle 9 G 6'3" 182 SO Atlanta, GA Transferred to Florida Atlantic Luke Goode 10 F 6'7" 203 SR Fort Wayne, IN Graduated Oumar Ballo 11 C 7'0" 265 SR Koulikoro, Mali Graduated Langdon Hatton 12 F 6'10" 247 SR Georgetown, IN Graduated Shaan Burke 13 G 6'4" 190 SR San Diego, CA Graduated Mackenzie Mgbako 21 F 6'9" 222 SO Gladstone, NJ Transferred to Texas A&M Jaden Bobbett 20 G 6'2" 190 SR Rye, NH Graduated Jackson Creel 22 G 6'3" 190 SR Mount Vernon, IL Graduated Trey Galloway 32 G 6'5" 205 SR Culver, IN Graduated Dallas James 42 F 7'0" 245 RS JR Artesia, CA Transferred to Morgan State
Incoming transfers Once again, IU found itself with a depleted roster after every scholarship player with remaining eligibility hit the transfer portal. Coaches Devries and Adams began working and recruiting the portal right away. IU landed its first transfer in Conor Enright, a redshirt senior from DePaul. Prior to his time at DePaul, Enright played for two seasons at Drake under Head Coach DeVries. During his lone year at DePaul, Enright averaged 7.5 points, 6.2 assists and 2.7 rebounds in 30 minutes per game. He shot 32.5 percent on 3s and 63.3 percent from the free-throw line. His season ended early after a shoulder injury in January required surgery in February. Not long after Enright committed to Indiana on April 2, 2025, another addition was made official when Coach DeVries' son, Tucker DeVries, announced his commitment the same day. While expected, there was a delay in obtaining his medical waiver, allowing him a fifth season. Following his father from West Virginia, DeVries was seen as a "dangerous and versatile guard." Only playing eight games in the last season, DeVries averaged 14.9 points, 4.9 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game. During his three seasons at Drake, fans saw him score 1,300 points, averaging 36.8% from behind the 3-point line. DeVries was named Missouri Valley Conference player of the year in his final two seasons at Drake. DeVries is also a former Iowa Mr. Basketball (2021).
Four days after the first transfer portal commitments, the coaching staff nabbed Reed Bailey from Davidson. Bailey, as a junior at Davidson, was named a first-team All-Atlantic 10 selection. He averaged 18.8 points, 6.1 rebounds, and 3.8 assists in the 2024–25 season (good for second in the Atlantic 10 in scoring and 13th in rebounding). In addition to being named first-team All-Atlantic 10, Bailey earned the Chris Daniels Most Improved Player award. The transfer commitments kept coming as 4-star guard, Lamar Wilkerson, announced his commitment to Indiana on April 15, 2025. Wilkerson transferred from Sam Houston, where he averaged 20.5 points, 4 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.1 steals. He shot 44.5 percent on 3s and 82.2 percent from the free-throw line. Wilkerson ranked seventh nationally in 3-point field goal percentage and 13th in made 3-point field goals (109). In the last season, he was a first-team All-Conference USA selection.
Devries and his staff had a big day on April 16, 2025, as two more portal transfers committed to the Hoosiers: Jasai Miles and Tayton Conerway. Miles joined IU after transferring from North Florida, and had two years of eligibility remaining. In the last season, Miles was named a third-team All-ASUN selection. He made 78 out of an attempted 233 3-pointers, which was good for 33.5 percent. He also averaged 15.4 points, 6.8 rebounds and 1.9 assists. Conerway made his announcement a mere two hours after Miles. As a Trojan of Troy University, Conerway was named the Sun Belt Conference player of the year in the last season. He averaged 14.2 points, 4.8 assists, 4.6 rebounds, 2.9 steals, and led his team to a share of the Sun Belt regular season championship and the conference tournament title. Before making the move to Troy, Conerway played JUCO basketball at Grayson College and Ranger College. He had one year of eligibility remaining.
The team grew by one more player when former Drexel guard, Jason "Deuce" Drake committed to play for Coach Devries and staff on April 22, 2025. As a junior at Drexel, Drake averaged 11.1 points, 3.1 assists and three rebounds. He shot 39.6 percent on 3s on 101 attempts and 86.5 percent from the free-throw line on 74 attempts. Prior to his time at Drexel, Drake played at Cleveland State for a year; before that, he spent a year at JUCO Butler Community College. Drake had two years of eligibility remaining. Alex Bozich of Inside the Hall states that with this seventh commitment, IU coaches would turn their attention to finding frontcourt pieces. An eighth transfer portal addition was confirmed on April 24, 2025. Nick Dorn, a former guard at Elon, chose Indiana over North Carolina, Pittsburgh, and Maryland. Standing at 6'7" and weighing 200 pounds, he averaged 15.2 points and 3.8 rebounds. Dorn had two years of eligibility remaining. The coaching staff landed a national champion with their next commitment from Sam Alexis, a 6'8" and 240-pound forward from Florida. Alexis committed to IU late in the evening on April 24, 2025. For his lone season at Florida, Alexis averaged 7.1 points, 5.7 rebounds, 1.2 blocked shots, and 1.1 assists per game. At Chattanooga, Alexis was named third-team All-Southern Conference in the 2023–24 season and to the league's all-defensive team. As a freshman in the 2022–23 season, he was named to the league's All-freshman team.
The roster continued to fill out when the Hoosiers got their 10th transfer portal commitment from Josh Harris. Last year, Harris played for the North Florida Ospreys with fellow IU transfer portal commit, Jasai Miles. As a freshman, Harris started all 30 games he appeared in and averaged 13.4 points and 7.1 rebounds. He shot 55.7 percent from the field, 33.3 percent on 3s and 69.5 percent from the free-throw line. Harris was named to the ASUN All-freshman team and had three seasons of eligibility remaining.